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You are absolutely right. I left my brain in my other coat.

Remember one key thing... Combat Superiority's attack is usable once per round (immediate interrupt), while Battle Guardian's attack is usable once per turn (opportunity action). The knight could get a ton of attacks from it (all beefed up by their stances and whatever MBA stuff they have)...

Hopefull this will silence all the misinformation on these two points. GOOD. We already knew that all wizard encounter powers were getting half damage on a miss, but its good to see that some of the new Essentials stuff is getting applied to the original content without affecting how the...

Agreed. Whenever I see things that are written up in paragraph format, but are basically a power for all intents and purposes, it frustrates me. They did it with Warlock's Curse in the PHB, but actually created a power writeup for it on the Compendium warlock writeup (which really. I've taken...

If done right, like the 4e ones we've seen so far? No way. As JohnSnow points out, they are clearly different. The problem is when you have Evocation as your blow-crap-up-school and you start putting blow-crap-up spells in Conjuration with the justification that it is conjuring fire from somewhere.

Doubtful, since we know that half of the classes in the Red Box have at-will powers. This is likely a racial feat power.

This is the case for every preview known to man, since those questions are a big part of what can motivate people to buy the product. A preview shows a tiny fraction of the product its for. A preview that doesn't raise more questions than answers is a bad preview. The answers are pretty clear...

I'd like to point out some things about that graph. The blog post its from is July 2010, so I assume that the "sales figures" on the graph are from July 2009 to July 2010. The products compared are the Pathfinder core book (which launched in August 2009) and the 4e PHB (which launched in June...

Which you then immediately tried to frame as them doing something you obviously considered "underhanded." It's the fact that without even knowing what is going on (by your own admission), you immediately jump to a "WotC is being sinister" conclusion. And it isn't like you don't already have a...

And they will get it. AFTER Essentials has its run. They've been clear on this. Chill out.

You make two key wrong assumptions in your response. I have seen what a paragon (and epic) party can do, and I have run this encounter. My party had trouble with it, probably because I didn't throw it at them when they were fresh as daisies (since it would obviously fail). They had been...

Immobilized doesn't break grabs. Dazed, Stunned, and Dominated do... but most of those will be EoNT or Save Ends (and the purple worm gets a +5 bonus), so it's fairly likely these won't last beyond a round or two. Actually, using the APs up front is wrong. Read Clamping Jaws. You have to...

/facepalm I dunno about you, but I think something is marketed as a starter when it has the words "Starter Set" in big white letters on a bright red box. It's one system. And that's why they're not making multiple editions. Again, this is 4e. PERIOD. End of statement. 3.5 made my 3.0...

Under the Augmentable keyword in the back, it says that it loses the augmentable keyword when it is given by a racial trait.

Doesn't sound better than the Prince of Lies fooling the god of justice into believing he had been betrayed by one of his closest allies, and therefore is driven to seek retribution for such a betrayal. That's what GHotR implies, but nobody can prove it, because Cyric is just that good.

Just because the knight build of the fighter class doesn't use at-will powers doesn't mean that a human who is a fighter (no matter the build) can't choose an at-will power as the rules say he can. After all, it says to pick an at-will from your class not your build. What, exactly, prevents a...

I think this common quote is being misinterpreted. I don't think that all classes will look just like this (simplified) from now on, but that ALL classes will have complex and simplified options from now on, so more classes will be appealing to more player types.

Why not? Essentials characters can take PHB1 stuff, so long as they qualify. Why can't a human knight have his stances and an at-will power like Tide of Iron for those times when he wants to use an at-will instead of modifying a basic?

Not really. Dropping daily powers (or even at-wills) without compensating for the loss of damage and conditions will severely reduce the effectiveness of any class. Whoa, that's a massive jump to conclusions and pretty insulting motive to assign to Wizards for providing an option people on...

Demonomicon is a name with history in D&D. A book on devils would probably be called the Codex of Betrayal and one on primordials would probably be Lords of Chaos (both after the articles about the same protagonists). I see demonic machinery as machinery that SHOULDN'T work, but it still...